Senior GCP Software Engineer

About the role

XyloPlan builds physics-based, community-scale wildfire risk modeling and simulation tools. Our Fire Pathways Architecture helps fire agencies, insurance carriers, reinsurers, utilities, and municipalities understand and reduce wildfire risk at the parcel level. We are a seed-stage company preparing for Series A in Q4 2026.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend APIs and services that serve simulation inputs, jobs, and results
• Build the services that power customer-facing front-ends and design customer-exposed APIs with secure, multi-tenant access controls
• Orchestrate compute-heavy simulation processing on GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Batch, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage)
• Build logging, monitoring, and observability so simulation pipelines are debuggable and dependable at scale
• Own platform security: authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, secrets management, and data protection for sensitive customer datasets
• Develop CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation (Terraform, Cloud Build)
• Optimize cost and performance of large batch processing workloads
• Collaborate with the geospatial and simulation teams to productionize their models and pipelines
• Set engineering standards and mentor engineers as the team scales, and contribute to core technical architecture decisions

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems
• Strong proficiency in Python for backend services and data processing
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Proven experience designing and shipping customer-facing or externally-exposed APIs (REST, gRPC, or GraphQL)
• Experience implementing authentication, authorization, and multi-tenant access controls for customer-facing systems
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong grounding in application and cloud security best practices
• Experience with observability tooling (logging, metrics, tracing)

Paid benefits

• Base salary: $165,000 - $200,000 (commensurate with experience)
• Equity: Stock option grant four-year vesting with one-year cliff
• Benefits: Health, dental, vision, unlimited PTO
• 401(k) available

Work location and model

• Remote within California or Colorado (required)
• Strong preference for candidates who can join weekly in-person work sessions at a coworking space in the Bay Area or Boulder area
• Occasional travel to customer sites and conferences (~10%)

Equal opportunity employer